ALISYN CAMEROTA (CO-HOST): Now, Errol, explain something to me. After months where Donald Trump said he was going to ban people based on their religion with a Muslim ban, where he went after the press, he was going to try to sort of constrain or change the First Amendment. He mocked someone who was handicapped. Why is it this, why is it the judge, what he said about the judge that seems to have created this groundswell? 



ERROL LOUIS: Well because it's an attack on the institution, and it's a respected institution. And at a time and in a country where many of our institutions are not respected or not trusted, political parties, the media. The judiciary is really pretty respected. They do a good job. And this is deeply embedded in the American system. Where they have lifetime tenure for a reason. They dress in black robes. They all look the same. They don't look like human. We really, we literally put them up above us when you go into a courtroom. We've done all that we could for centuries to make sure that this is a respected, neutral, effective institution, and that by-and-large has happened. You look at the history of this particular judge, he's right in line with that honored tradition, and to attack the judiciary, a lot of people, as Lindsey Graham says, this is the off ramp. And then you put the ethnic bias on top of it, somebody from a state like South Carolina, somebody from a state like Georgia, I think that's really where some of where Newt Gingrich's sort of visceral reaction came from, where they've seen racial politics and seen where it can go and how bad it can be. And all of these people are sort of putting up a hand saying, not so fast, Mr. Candidate, don't do that. And of course, he's got a different concept of leadership. 



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DAVID GREGORY: Look, this is an attack on the Constitution, alright? This is not some offhanded comment. This is an attack on the judiciary, and there is no other side. There's nobody who is saying, 'Oh yeah, no it's good. Go after the guy.'



CHRIS CUOMO (CO-HOST): [Fox News Host Bill] O'Reilly. O'Reilly in an interview with him, you can say why tactically he wanted to do it. He said, “I think the judge should step down not because of anything on the merits but the perception that his future ruling.” That's exactly why the judge needs to stay in place.

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